Like millions of you out there, I have always wondered about blogging. What's it all about? Why do people blog? What type of person would blog at all? I can only assume that many of you starting blogging due to a specific incident or circumstance that happened to you. A situation you felt compelled to let others know about - maybe save someone else the time and aggravation you experienced. As you can guess by now, that's what happened to me.
My brother was recently ripped-off through an eBay transaction and there seemed to be little he could do about it. He worked with the eBay fraud department but it was going no where. So we decided to take matters into our own hands. You see my brother had the cell phone number for the person who committed the fraud, but he couldn't get the police or FBI to search for the owner of the phone. So we thought we would try to hunt this person down using the Interent - our favorite tool.
The first thing we had to do was find a service that could track down cell phone numbers. This is where it got interesting -- the whole reason for this blog. I'll tell you right now that we managed to find the crook, prosecute him and he served jail time. We did it in a matter of days and even impressed the FBI. However, we discovered there are hundreds of sites out there claiming to help you with your detective work. Some great and some aweful.
We tried all the search terms we could think of: 'cell phone lookup', 'cell phone owner', 'reverse cell phone address', 'cell phone owner's address', and so on. We must of tried 20 or 30 terms. This led us to a plethora of sites claiming they could provide a service. We saw fees ranging anywhere from free to $250 to get us the information.
Over the next couple of weeks, I hope to save you readers some time, effort and money by explaining what we learned. Today, I will end by telling you that not all online detective sites are equal, some seem to be down right scams, while others provide excellent services at reasonable prices.
We did find a few review sites that got us started. (I am big on finding reviews online whether it is for an HDTV, car, movie, etc. - maybe I'll create a blog for that too) These sites led us to all sorts of other information. Three of them are:
http://www.detective-zone.com
http://www.top-peoplesearch-sites.com
http://www.onlinedetectivereview.com
In a couple of days, I will walk you through the process we went through and point out what we found to be the good and the bad.
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